BJ's Wholesale Club history

The company was started by discount department store chain Zayre in 1984, on the Medford/Malden border in Massachusetts.

Weich announced her resignation as president in June 1987, and left on August 1.

When Zayre Corporation sold the Zayre nameplate to rival discount chain Ames in October 1988, TJX Companies was formed.

In 1989, TJX spun off their warehouse division, consisting of BJ's and now-defunct HomeClub (later known as HomeBase, then House2Home), to form Waban, Inc.

In August 1997, Waban spun off BJ's to become an independent company, BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc., headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, while Waban renamed itself to HomeBase, Inc.

Prior to joining BJ’s, he worked at CVS Health, a healthcare company, since 1999 in positions of increasing responsibility, including most recently as Senior Vice President, Corporate Human Resources.

On January 5, 2011, BJ's announced it would close five underperforming stores in the Southeast, eliminate approximately 100 headquarters jobs by the end of the month, and restructure its home office and some field operations.

Luce joined BJ’s Wholesale Club in 2015.

Prior to that, she served as Senior Vice President, Controller, since 2016 and was responsible for the integrity of financial records.

He joined BJ’s in this position in 2017 and is responsible for IT, ensuring that the Company has the technology, systems and people in place to support the Company’s transformation.

Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, having been appointed to that role in 2018.

In 2019, BJ's expanded into Michigan, with a new store in Madison Heights.

Cichocki joined BJ’s in 2020 as Executive Vice President, Membership, Analytics and Business Transformation.

In November 2021, BJ’s announced plans to expand to La Vergne, Tennessee.